Seeder



April 3, 1928.

T. RICHARDS SEEDER Filed May 18 1926 Aim/my Patented Apr. 3, 1928. i I v UNITED srrss QFMQEQ.

' TEMPLE RICHARDS, or GLAGE BAY, nova soorIA', CANADA.

SEEDER.

7 Application filed May 18, 1926. Serial-No. 109,910.

This present invention relates to irnproveoutlet is accomplished by moving the openments in a seeder and appertains particuings and perforations entirely out of reglarly to a device of this character wiose istry. It will thus be seen that the flow of principal object is to deposit and suitably various sized seeds can-be properly con- 6% cover the seeds as the implement is advanced trolled by regulating the size of the outlet over the ground. afforded by the more or less registering A further object is to provide a hand holes. In the present illustrations, I have seeder of the character described, provided shown four outlets circumferentially about with means to cover the seeds when so (10- the drum, though-any desired size ofdrum t II.) posited. with any number of openings may be used, A further object is the provision of a and so it. will be seen that the spacing of seeder as described that will save time and the seeds dropped from the'drum may also labor is easily operated and will be found )eregulated by the manipulation of these eflicient in use. closure caps 10, for-on each rotation of the Io A still further object is the provision of drum the seeder is advanced a distance equal a seeder as set, forth wherein the number of t the circumference Of the drum in which parts are few, the construction simple and distanceor during which rotation, with the the cost of production relatively low the design of seeder shown, one, two, or four same being thereby rendered commercially seeds may be dropped at evenly spaced dis- 75 2a desirable. I tances by closing all but one outlet, alternate To the accomplishment of these and reoutlets, or :by leaving all the outlets open, lated objects that may become apparent, the as required respectively. invention resides in the construction, com- This drum is rolled along over the prebination and arrangement of parts as shall pared field by a handle member let united 80 be hereinafter more fully described, illustherewith by a bifurcated ferrule whose trated in the accompanying drawings and arms 16 are connected axially, to the drum pointed out in the claims hereunto appended. ends with suitable bearings 17. These axi- The invention will be best understood ally aligned bearings serve also to support a and can be most clearly described when trailing element 18. 85 reference is had to the attached drawings This trailing element is, in the present informing a part of this disclosure and in stance, in the form of seed covering mediwhich, um, though a weighted roller or both may Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the imquite satisfactorily be'e'mployed. Here the proved seeder, and trailing element comprises a body 19 formed 90 Fig. 2 is a detail t 'ansverse section thcrcof a strip of sheet'metal whose ends 20 are through, showing the device in operation; doubled back on itself diagonally as at 21, to

Particular reference is now had to these lie at right angles in the same plane, and drawings, wherein like characters indicate then bent vertically just within the diagonal like parts throughout the views, the numeral fold 21, as at 22, into a plane at right 95 4o 5 designating the seed containing drum havangles to the body. These vertical ends 20 ing a screw cap 6, for filling purposes, are embraced hereinbefore described by threaded to the flange 7 of an opening 8 in the bearings 17 thereby connecting the same one end. to the drumB, the body 19 being disposed Radial openings 9 occur at spaced interhorizontally and extending transversely of we vals about the circumference of this drum the drum. To this horizontal body, seed 5 having closure caps 10 with perforations covering tines 23 are secured, as by the nut 11 adapted to be brought into registering and bolt 24, terminating in a downwardly with said openings 9. These caps 10 slide ient forked tooth 25 designed to straddle the transversely of the drum 5, parallel with its line on which the seeds are being dropped to 5 axis, between the inwardly flanged guides fill the soil in. over the deposited seeds.

12 being frictionally held thereby in any. Three such tines are illustrated, in spaced desired position. The bringing of the perrelation, though only one is necessary when forations in the caps 10 into only partial but a single circumferential row of openings registry with the drum openings 9 obviare provided in the drum, consequently it is no .55 ously constricts the size of the seed outlet, assumed that instead of individual openings thus afforded, while the shutting off of the occuring at spaced intervals about the circumference of the drum, a number of such openings, suitably spaced in transverse alignment, may be included thereby enabling the device to seed a number of rows at a time.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be manifest that a seeder is provided which will fulfill all the necessary requirements of such a device, butas manychanges could be made in the above description and many apparently Widely different embodiments of my invention constructed Within.

the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit or scope thereof, it is intended that all matters contained in the said accompanying specification and drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limited sense. i

What I claim new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 2- 1. Seed covering'devices for a seeder including the combination with the seeder axle, of a body formed of a strip of metal having its ends doubled back on itself diagonally to heat right angles in the same plane, and then bent vertically, just within the diagonal fold, into a plane at right angles to the body; the said ends of the body being mounted on the ends of the seeder axle; and a rearwardly extending tine carried on the said body.

2. In combination with a rotatable seed depositing'body, a trailing seed covering device including a transverse body strip haw ing its ends bent uponitself and extended forwardly for mounting on the ends of the seeder'axle carrying the seeder hopper and the seeder handle; and a-plurality of tines extended rearwardly from the said body strip and having downwardly curved bifurcated free ends.

Signed at Glace Bay, in the county of Cape Breton and Province of Nova 'Scotia, this 27th day of April, A. D. 1926.

TEMPLE RICHARDS. 

